During the administration of Donald Trump, North Korean denuclearization had been at the top of the list of US foreign policy priorities. Under Joe Biden, the North Korean problem has been relegated to the back burner. A recent test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) allegedly capable of striking targets …
Read More »North Korea launches suspected ballistic missile
North Korea has launched an unidentified missile toward the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s military and Japan’s coast guard reported on Thursday, with conflicting media reports regarding where the projectile landed. Japan’s coast guard issued a statement which claimed the missile fell inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, with the projectile …
Read More »North Korea fires multiple rocket launcher shots into Yellow Sea – reports
North Korea appeared to fire four shots from its multiple rocket launchers into the Yellow Sea early on Sunday, military officials in Seoul have said. “There were shots believed to be that of North Korea’s multiple rocket launchers this morning,” a South Korean military official told Yonhap news agency. “We …
Read More »North Korea issues dire warning to US
North Korea claimed in a statement on Tuesday that it could “shake the world” by firing a missile at the United States and suggested that it had hydrogen bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and hypersonic missiles at its disposal. “In today’s world where many countries waste time dealing with the United …
Read More »North Korea developing nukes ‘through cyber means,’ has stolen cryptocurrency – secret UN report
North Korean hackers have stolen millions of dollars from international cryptocurrency exchanges, as well as obtaining intellectual property to be used for the development of nukes and missiles, according to a confidential UN report. Details of the alleged cyberattacks are contained in papers submitted to the UN Security Council on …
Read More »North Korea fires missile into sea – reports
North Korea has appeared to have launched another missile into the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military announced on Thursday morning local time. Thursday’s launch comes just two days after the test-firing of two cruise missiles on Tuesday morning. It is the sixth such incident since the beginning of …
Read More »North Korea conducts another missile launch – media
North Korea has fired what appear to be two cruise missiles into the sea off its east coast early on Tuesday, South Korean news agency Yonhap has reported, citing multiple military sources. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff have been analyzing the specifications of the projectiles, which are believed to …
Read More »North Korea launched cyberattack against Russia – media
The North Korean hacker group APT37 attacked the Russian Foreign Ministry and its employees in late 2021 and subsequently compromised the account of a government employee, US information security experts have reported. According to researchers at US cybersecurity companies Cluster25 and Black Lotus Labs, and later reported by Moscow daily Kommersant, …
Read More »Presidential candidate doubles down on war threat against North Korea
South Korean presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol has reiterated his promise to make sure the country develops capabilities to carry out a preemptive strike against North Korea if it opts to put its nuclear weapons to use. Yoon, who is running in the election this March for the country’s People Power …
Read More »Pentagon thought North Korean missile was headed for US – media
US military and aviation officials were briefly convinced that a North Korean missile launch earlier this week could pose a threat to the ‘homeland’, CNN reported, but early readings were soon dismissed as inaccurate. Moments after Pyongyang fired a hypersonic missile off its east coast as part of a weapons …
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